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Is zoster a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word zoster is a Scrabble US word. The word zoster is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

Z10O1S1T1E1R1

Is zoster a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word zoster is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

Z10O1S1T1E1R1

Is zoster a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word zoster is a Words With Friends word. The word zoster is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

Z10O1S1T1E1R1

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6-letter words (2 found)

ROZETS,ZOSTER,

5-letter words (10 found)

ESTRO,RESTO,ROSET,ROTES,ROZET,STORE,TORES,TORSE,TOZES,ZEROS,

4-letter words (23 found)

EROS,ERST,ORES,ORTS,REOS,REST,RETS,ROES,ROSE,ROST,ROTE,ROTS,SORE,SORT,TOES,TORE,TORS,TOSE,TOZE,TRES,TREZ,ZERO,ZEST,

3-letter words (22 found)

ERS,EST,OES,ORE,ORS,ORT,OSE,REO,RES,RET,REZ,ROE,ROT,SER,SET,SEZ,SOT,SOZ,TES,TOE,TOR,ZOS,

2-letter words (13 found)

ER,ES,ET,OE,OR,OS,RE,SO,ST,TE,TO,ZE,ZO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 71 words from zoster according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of zoster

zoster

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr).

Noun

zoster (countable and uncountable, plural zosters)

  1. (countable) An ancient Greek waist-belt for men.
  2. (uncountable, pathology) The disease called herpes zoster (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles.

Derived terms

See also

  • chicken pox

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr, “girdle”), from ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi, “to gird”).

Noun

zōstēr m (genitive zōstēris); third declension

  1. The shingles
  2. A kind of sea shrub

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

  • “zoster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Middle English

Noun

zoster

  1. (Kent) Alternative form of suster

Source: wiktionary.org